The cast of The White Lotus has checked into the 2025 Emmy Awards, further squashing any rumblings of bad blood.
While most of the season 3 crew walked the red carpet separately during the Sunday, September 14, awards show, Walton Goggins and Parker Posey joined forces to present the award for Outstanding Director in a Comedy Series.
“We spent eight months in Thailand shooting the third season of The White Lotus,” Goggins, 53, said on stage before Posey, 56, proclaimed that the setting was “so beautiful” and the cuisine was “divine.”
“It was, wasn’t it?” Goggins added. “I wish I had some right now. Thai Thai food. … No, I’m not tired. I just want some Thai food you can only get in Thailand.”
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While both Goggins and Posey noted the banter-filled conversation was making them “hungry,” they first handed out the Emmy trophy to Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg for The Studio.
Shortly before the ceremony began, Jason Isaacs gushed about the cast dynamics while on the red carpet.
“I do feel like a surrogate father,” Isaacs, 62, told Entertainment Weekly. “To be honest, I fell madly in love with Patrick [Schwarznegger] and Sam [Nivola] and Sarah Catherine [Hook] as my fake kids, that when my real daughters came to visit, I said, ‘Let’s got out and eat with the kids,’ and they went, ‘Dad, we’re your kids.’”
Isaacs further revealed to USA Today that he keeps in touch with everyone via multiple group chats, where one message chain was for everyone and the other was just for the Ratliff family. (Isaacs played the Ratliff patriarch, where Schwarznegger, Nivola and Hook were his three onscreen kids.)
Mike White’s hit anthology series is up for nine Emmys, receiving nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Guest Actor. Season 3 stars Posey, Goggins, Isaacs, Carrie Coon, Natasha Rothwell, Aimee Lou Wood, Sam Rockwell and Scott Glenn (who played resort owner Jim Hollinger) all earned individual acting nominations.
Glenn, 86, already lost his category, Outstanding Drama Guest Actor, to The Pitt’s Shawn Hatosy during the Creative Arts Emmys earlier this month.
After The White Lotus wrapped, rumors started swirling earlier this year that certain costars were at odds after Isaacs stirred the pot.
“It was a theatre camp, but to some extent an open prison camp: you couldn’t avoid one another,” Isaacs told The Guardian in February, acknowledging certain “tensions and difficulties” behind the scenes. “I don’t know if they spilled from onscreen to offscreen, or if it would have happened anyway.”
He continued, “There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke. It’s a long period of time for people to be away from their family with an open bar and all the wildness being in Thailand allows.”
While Isaacs did not name which costars were allegedly feuding, fans theorized that Goggins, 53, and Wood, 31, were not on amicable terms after they appeared to unfollow one another on social media.
“There is no feud. I adore [and] I love this woman madly. She is so important to me,” Goggins told Variety in June during a joint interview with Wood, who played his onscreen love interest. “This is Goldie Hawn. This is Meg Ryan. She can do anything, and she will.”
He added, “You watch what the next 20 years of her experience will be. I’ll be on an island, I think Greece. But she’s special. There is no feud. She is love, and I know that I am that to her. We care about each other very deeply.”
When asked about the social media speculation, Wood quipped that the two actors “don’t give a s*** about Instagram” in the first place.
“Why is everyone obsessing over Instagram? That is irrelevant,” Wood told the outlet. “Why not have conversations about the story and [our characters] Rick and Chelsea and enjoy it?”
